The Hindu : CPI(M)'s History Commission to meet tomorrow

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Friday, Oct 11, 2002

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CPI(M)'s History Commission to meet tomorrow

By Our Special Correspondent

Kolkata OCT. 10. The History Commission set up by the CPI(M) to produce a book on the Communist movement in India will hold its first meeting in Kolkata on October 12.

The decision to set up the commission was taken at the Hyderabad party congress and it was formed during the party's central committee meeting last September. It comprises the CPI(M)'s politburo members, Jyoti Basu, H.K.S. Surjeet, E.K Nayanar, P. Ramachandran and K. Satyanarayan.

The commission will meet in the newly constructed office of the party's Kolkata district committee, Promode Dasgupta Bhaban.

Rabin Deb, a prominent party MLA, along with a few leftist academicians, will assist the commission.

At its first meeting, the commission will draw up a broad outline that will serve as a guideline for recording the movement's history — how the ideology took roots in the country, the impact of the November revolution, the role of the Communist party in the country's freedom movement, the peasants' uprisings, the great ideological debate in post-Independent India, the split in the movement, the first Communist government in Kerala, the ideological crisis following the disintegration of the Soviet Union and the impact of globalisation, among others.

At the party's last congress, it was suggested that such a book was needed, especially at this juncture when the country was passing through an economic, social and political turmoil, thanks to globalisation and the Bharatiya Janata Party's growing influence.

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